[Catalyst] create search engine friendly uri from string

[Brad Bowman]

Robin Berjon wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2008, at 21:53 , Johannes Plunien wrote:
>> My not very elegant, but working solution:
>>
>> my $str = "  Beta Launch Invites: Kwyno Brings The Web Into Your IM 
>> And (Soon) SMS Inboxes  ";
>> $str =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
>> $str =~ s/\W/ /g;
>> $str =~ s/\s{1,}/ /g;
>> $str =~ s/\s/-/g;
>> $str = lc($str);
>>
>> print "$str\n";
> 
> A wee bit shorter:
> 
> my $str = "  Beta Launch Invites: Kwyno Brings The Web Into Your IM And 
> (Soon) SMS Inboxes  ";
> $str =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
> $str =~ s/\W+/-/g;
> $str = lc($str);
> 
> print "$str\n";
> 
> Before putting that into a module though you might want to think about 
> what should happen to characters outside the [a-z0-9] range as \W will 
> match differently based on locale. I'm not sure what the recommended 
> behaviour is for such cases.
> 
> 

Here's some code I use for renaming strange files, there might
be something useful there (or not, given I'm decades behind on
this list)

use strict;
use Convert::Translit;

my $trans = Convert::Translit->new('Latin1' => 'ascii');

sub clean {
     local($_) = shift;

     $_ = $trans->transliterate($_);
     $_=lc;
     s/&/ and /g;
     s/\+/ plus /g;
     s/'//g;
     y/()~/---/s;
     # . || - || _ for the rest
     s/(?:(-)|(\.)|[\W_])+/$+||'_'/ge;
     s/^[._-]//;
     s/[._-]$//;
     return $_;
}


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